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100 1 $aBuck, William.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86837458
245 10 $aMahabharata /$cretold by William Buck ; introduction by B.A. van Nooten ; illustrated by Shirley Triest.
260 $aBerkeley, Calif. ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2000.
300 $a451 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aThis translation originally published: 1973.
520 1 $a"Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit verse epic written some 2,000 years ago. The Mahabharata is probably the largest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas for land. In his introduction, sanskritist B. A.
520 8 $aNooten notes "Apart from William Buck's rendition [no other English version has] been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic.""--BOOK JACKET.
546 $aTranslated from the Sanskrit.
630 00 $aMahābhārata$vAdaptations.
650 0 $aHindu mythology$vFiction.
600 00 $aKrishna$c(Hindu deity)$vFiction.
700 1 $aTriest, Shirley.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001004689
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